Discovering, identifying, and configuring devices with opaque addresses in the internet of things environment
AssigneeAssa Abloy AB
InventorsSylvain Jacques Prevost, Kapil Sachdeva
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Abstract
A method and device for discovering, identifying, and configuring a particular one of a plurality of devices to be administered is described. The method and device facilitate these steps by eliminating the need for an administrator to know a specific MAC address or unique identifier for the device to be administered, and by eliminating the need to identify that specific MAC address or unique identifier in a list of MAC addresses or unique identifiers.
Claims20
A method for connecting to a specific one of a plurality of uniquely identifiable computing devices, comprising:
- scanning, with an administrative computing device, for wireless signals in wireless communication range of the administrative computing device;
- displaying, on the administrative computing device, a unique object associated with each wireless signal received from a plurality of uniquely identifiable computing devices detected during the scanning step;
- selecting one of the unique objects displayed on the administrative computing device;
- establishing a wireless connection between the administrative computing device and the uniquely identifiable computing device that produced the wireless signal associated with the selected unique object;
- and
- sending over the wireless connection, from the administrative computing device to the uniquely identifiable computing device, a command to be executed by the uniquely identifiable computing device.
A method for connecting to a specific reader in a physical access control system having a plurality of readers, comprising:
- scanning, with a computing device, for wireless signals from among a plurality of readers;
- receiving, on the computing device and from each of the plurality of readers, an object that uniquely identifies the reader among the plurality of readers;
- displaying, on the computing device, each unique object received from each of the plurality of readers, wherein the unique objects are displayed on the computing device in an ordered set thereby enabling a user of the computing device to select one among the plurality of readers by selecting one of the unique objects;
- establishing a wireless connection between the computing device and a selected reader;
- and
- sending over the wireless connection, from the computing device to the reader, a command to perform a sequence of tasks.
A device for administering uniquely identifiable computing devices, comprising:
- a wireless communication radio;
- a graphical user interface;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory containing instructions for performing an administrative task and for causing the device to:
- scan for wireless signals received from among a plurality of uniquely identifiable computing devices;
- display a unique object associated with each wireless signal received from among the plurality of uniquely identifiable computing devices detected during the scanning step;
- receive user input selecting one of the displayed unique objects;
- establish a wireless connection with the uniquely identifiable computing device that produced the wireless signal associated with the selected one of the displayed unique objects;
- and
- send, over the wireless connection, a command to perform a sequence of identification tasks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.